Welcome Back, Wilber’s!
Barbecue occupies several spots on GQ’s list of 53 Things You Should Eat Before Summer is Over
The California barbecue scene is on the upswing
Smorgasburg has reopened
RIOT RIBS
Barbecue Center is closed this week due to vacation
Noble Smoke is celebrating one year open this Saturday
– Seasoned Review visits Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro for barbecue and chicken and mostly digs it
– Reader’s Digest (which is apparently still around?) selects The Barbecue Festival as one of the Best Small-Town Festivals in America
Thank you @readersdigest…Best Small-Town Festivals in America | Reader’s Digest https://t.co/a7z6ebkLXC
— Barbecue Festival (@barbecuefest) April 26, 2018
– Chicago has 4 new southern barbecue spots that seem worth checking out
– The Ringer’s Danny Chau visits Portland and documents his meals, which included Central Texas Barbecue at Matt’s BBQ
I wrote about everything I ate in Portland, Oregon. (I ate a lot.) https://t.co/UufLlQ9xHM
— Danny Chau (@dannychau) April 22, 2018
– A Charlotte Boy Scout pitmaster has started a…crab cake food truck called Baltimore Crab Cakes
– The more you know:
We love our good ol’ hometown of Goldsboro, NC! It is the perfect place to grab a brew, some ‘cue, and stock up on your #pigswag! Come visit us at our general store to grab an ice cream and take some of your favorite cuts home with you! @HFGeneralStore #cheshirepork #goldsboronc pic.twitter.com/Y6TlvgBuQ1
— Cheshire Pork (@CheshirePork) April 23, 2018
– A tiny new joint in the mountains of NC called The Tin Shed has opened on a farm in the tiny town of Spruce Pines
– RIP Douglas Oliver, longtime pitmaster at Sweatman’s Bar-B-Que
Restaurant kitchens are full of unsung heroes, obscurity toilers, invisible workers like Douglas Oliver, who died last month. For over three decades, Douglas worked as a pitmaster at Sweatman’s Bar-B-Que in Holly Hill, SC. He called himself a “worker ant.” pic.twitter.com/esNU0jchLD
— Rien Fertel (@rienfertel) November 27, 2017
– Dino Philyaw, a former University of Oregon and Carolina Panthers football player originally from Dudley, NC, has brought (among other things) Eastern Carolina barbecue to Eugene
Dino Philyaw cooks all kinds of barbecue but he is partial to the type of vinegar and pepper sauce-based barbecue from eastern North Carolina, where he’s from.
– How our differences show our similarities
Even before I was old enough to be given my first rifle, I was aware of the difference between eastern and western N.C. barbecue. Eastern BBQ, strangely enough, was almost considered a foreign dish. More than one elder statesman from the Piedmont informed me that the sauce was indeed different — it could be “downright bitter!” Adding ketchup to slaw, furthermore, was just what one did. It complemented the sliced or chopped pork shoulder. With my provincial yet well-informed definition of barbecue and sides, I kept chomping away, whenever there was an opportunity to do so.
– A few long-but-not-forgotten barbecue restaurants get a brief mention in this Charlotte Five article on most missed Charlotte restaurants – Old Hickory House, Olde Original BBQ, Ol’ Smokehouse, Rogers Barbecue
– HECK YES:
Lexington NC style barbecue is intrinsically superior to all other barbecue. https://t.co/HRQWbs2iLS
— Kara N. Slade (@KaraNSlade) November 20, 2017
– Check out our Taste Trekker’s list for Five Unique Barbecue Experiences in Charlotte, North Carolina; it was partially (ok, very) inspired by this list from Marie, Let’s Eat!
– The latest Arrogant Swine post on opening a barbecue restaurant on Serious Eats finds Uncle Ho trying to hire a staff
The saddest moment in any barbecue guy’s professional life is when you realize that the person you’re training to do the cooking just doesn’t give a royal fuck about barbecue. They’d be just as happy making pizza or ramen noodles. The food was coming out awful and Jack couldn’t care. “Just cover it with barbecue sauce and no one will tell the difference,” he once noted.
– More information on the barbecue events at the World of Bluegrass festival in downtown Raleigh on 10/3
– More coverage on the NC BBQ Map from the Elkin Times and TWC News
– Andrew Carter’s column leading up to last weekend’s ECU drubbing of UNC took the pulse of fans at Parker’s Barbecue in Greenville and ends with this choice quote:
Down at Parker’s the lunch crowd had picked up and Parker went out to help work the register. A line began to form, a small version of what is coming Saturday.
“Everybody in this town needs to thank God for East Carolina,” said Parker, whose restaurant had already booked six catering events at the stadium on Saturday. “I mean, really. For the hospital and for East Carolina.
“(Without) those two things — well, Greenville would be Kinston.”
– “The pitfalls of barbecue reportage” examines how barbecue journalists such as Daniel Vaughn attempt to report on pitmasters without romanticizing them
– Boone’s Bar-B-Que Kitchen (our current #1) has posted an updated schedule for their foodtruck and they will be at a few upcoming Charlotte beer festivals starting with this weekend’s Charlotte Oktoberfest
– Marie, Let’s Eat!’s latest barbecue stop is Log Cabin Smokehouse Bar-B-Que in Rome, GA
– Barbecue Rankings had a lot of posts in the last week: Dallas, Seattle, Detroit, Pecos, Albuquerque, and Phoenix
– Aaron Franklin brought his smoked meats to Feast Portland last weekend; TMBBQ has the photos and story
– As is to be expected, barbecue is the signature food of several states including North Carolina
